REJECT THE DEAL! – CWU rep urges at Gate Gourmet anniversary rally
‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...
Blair jeered at Inquiry
Tony Blair yesterday claimed at the Chilcot Inquiry that he ‘regrets deeply and profoundly the loss of life’ in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. His...
‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
‘We’re fighting for the future of the BBC’
Picket lines are out at BBC sites across the country today as 10,000 workers from all three BBC unions – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus...
MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot
ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless
Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...
SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...
‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’
OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...
Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis
THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...
Bhutto Demands Exact Election Date
In a bid to defuse a developing insurrectionary situation, Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf said after chairing a meeting of the National Security Council...
‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths
‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...
Occupy Oakland Shuts Port
Riot police fired tear gas at young protesters in Oakland, California, on Wednesday night after the port city was shut down in protest against...
‘Circling to take over NHS’ – TUC warns US healthcare companies
US healthcare companies circling to take over the NHS are now ‘on notice’, says the TUC. Speaking after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht...
2019 Is The Year For Socialist Revolutions
NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...
Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation
ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...
Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke
The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...
One Million Lebanese Take To The Streets
over one million Lebanese crowded the streets around the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad Siniora in central Beirut yesterday, calling for his...
Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!
THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...
‘Pay Slashed To 1990’s Levels!’
LOCAL government pay has been slashed to 1990’s levels by below inflation pay settlements, a two-year pay freeze and the employers’ failure to pay...
ACTION NEEDED: ‘NHS AT THE CROSSROADS’ says BMA leader
THE leader of the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday that the health service is under unprecedented pressure, with many parts of the NHS...
Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence
A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...
‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...
NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut
Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...
New Freedom Flotilla Being Prepared
A new flotilla to break the siege on Gaza is being prepared in Lebanon. It includes an all-woman vessel, named the Mariam, organised by Samar...
PROSECUTE ISRAEL! – Erekat urges International Criminal Court
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...
Bma Condemns ‘Cruel And Vindictive’ Whorlton Hall
THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...
London/Manchester joint Grenfell march
THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...
‘Heinous’ Israeli Crime Condemned
THE Israeli army and Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah traded fire across the border yesterday, stoking fears that the war in Gaza could spark a...
GP surgeries to be closed!
THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...
SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today
‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...
3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service
MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...
11 Kenyans were beaten to death in Hola prison camp
FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
EU bankers plunder Greece!
USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...
SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...
‘FIGHT FOR EVERY JOB!’ say Gate Gourmet pickets
ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...
House prices up by 40% –100,000 eviction notices issued
HOUSE prices in much of London as well as the UK’s southeast have increased by more than 40 per cent, instilling fears of...
Gates Hints At Earlier US Pull-Out Of Iraq
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday hinted at the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq’s Arab and...
‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!
THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
‘We desperately need more midwives’ says RCM
THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...
Bma Condemns The Abduction Of Bahraini Doctors
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ the terrorising and detention of doctors in Bahrain by the feudal regime that is armed...
Afghan war a ‘lost cause’ – Glenton hands back his medal
Most UK troops ‘thought it was a lost cause ten years ago’, ex-soldier Joe Glenton told a Westminster press conference yesterday before handing back...
Trump declares National Emergency! – ‘US will never crush us’ says Huawei boss
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared a National Emergency to protect US computer networks from ‘foreign adversaries’. He signed an executive order which effectively bars US...
80,000 Civil Servants Out!
Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...
Rbs And Criminal Activity!
ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Ross McEwan has been accused by MPs on the Treasury Select Committee of withholding information about an...